Hockey Shots

general questions about Neat Image
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Stan Schurman
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Hockey Shots

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Last week I took 80+ shots of my son's hockey game. I was using a Nikon D90 with a 70-300mm F4.5 zoom set at 1/320 sec which gave me about an F8 - F10 aperture at a 3200 ISO. The D90 is noted for its hi-ISO performance, but I wasn't expecting much as I was also shooting through glass. The shots ended up being moderately good with a moderate amount of noise as expected. Later I was reading something by Thom Hogan and he mentioned using Neatimage which I had never heard of. I Googled it and downloaded the trial version. Upon applying it to a few of the hockey shots I was blown away. Somewhat usable shots became very usable. Today I purchased the Home Version. For such a usable (and user-friendly) tool, it's amazingly inexpensive. I'll be doing a lot more low-light shooting knowing I can clean up the noise so effortlessly.
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